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AT THE GOODMAN Want to Learn More About What Inspires the Work on Our Stages? Discover the Insider Access Series. Insider Access is a series of public programs that provide insight into the Goodman’s artistic process. Take advantage of these events to enrich your Goodman experience. Other Desert Cities Artist Encounter: Other Desert Cities A discussion with Director Henry Wishcamper Sunday, January 20 | 5pm Healy Rehearsal Room Hear about the making of Other Desert Cities from the director himself in this intimate discussion preceding a 7:30pm performance. FREE for Subscribers, Donors and students with ID; $5 for the general public. Reservations are required. Call 312.443.3800 to reserve your seats. PlayBack: Other Desert Cities Following each Wednesday and Thursday performance of Other Desert Cities, Albert Theatre audiences are invited to attend free PlayBacks, post-show discussions with members of the artistic team. FREE Other Desert Cities Pre-Show Discussions Before select performances of Other Desert Cities, members of the Goodman’s artistic staff will host pre-show discussions. Pre-show discussions begin at 7pm in the upper lobby on January 25, February 1, February 8 and February 15. FREE Double Your Education Support Your gift supporting Goodman Theatre’s Education and Community Engagement programs can go twice as far with our $10,000 matching challenge. Make a donation of any amount—up to $2,500—and designate it to Education. Your support will be matched dollar-for-dollar by an anonymous foundation until the challenge goal of $10,000 is met. Your gift helps make crucial programs like the Student Subscription Series and General Theater Studies available free of charge to Chicagoland’s youth. To make a gift, contact Scott Podraza at 312.443.3811 ext. 566 or visit GoodmanTheatre.org/SupportEducation. Teddy Ferrara Artist Encounter: Teddy Ferrara Featuring Director Evan Cabnet Wednesday, February 6 | 6pm Polk Rehearsal Room Learn about this exciting new play in a discussion with the director before a 7:30 performance. FREE for Subscribers, Donors and students with ID; $5 for the general public. Reservations are required. Call 312.443.3800 to reserve your seats. PlayBack: Teddy Ferrara Following each Wednesday evening performance of Teddy Ferrara, audiences are invited to attend free PlayBacks, post-show discussions with members of the Goodman’s artistic team. FREE Looking for a gift worthy of a standing ovation? THE NEW GOODMAN WILD CARD: 4 TICKETS TO MIX AND MATCH, ALL FOR JUST $199. The WILD CARD is good for 4 tickets to any 2012/13 production—and you’ll save up to 30% off Albert single tickets! GoodmanTheatre.org/WildCard 16
IN THE WINGS GeNarrations: Stories from the School of Life The following excerpt is taken from Mary Anthoney’s story “Drink of Choice,” which she performed at the first reading of the season for the Goodman’s GeNarrations program. The GeNarrations program offers life-long learners age 55 and up the opportunity to craft performative oral history pieces centered on a theme from a main-stage show at the Goodman. “My very first week on the job I was taken to lunch at the Kinzie House (which is now Harry Caray’s). I was brand new to the big city, and so easily impressed! We were seated in the elegant dining room, a sea of crisp white tablecloths and napkins. A solemn, tuxedo-clad waiter approached our table. ‘Would you care for a cocktail?’ “This was new to me! I had never had a drink during the day, much less during working hours, and I was caught completely off guard. I had no idea what to say. I didn’t even know what would have been appropriate to order. I covered my naïveté—and ignorance—by quipping, ‘Nothing, thanks, I’m already intoxicated by the newness of the city.’ “Problem is, I couldn’t use that line more than once. But I did my research and learned that of all alcoholic beverages, scotch and water has the fewest calories. That became my drink of choice, even though the first sip never failed to make me grimace.” This season marks the fourth year of the Goodman’s GeNarrations program, which initially began as a writing and reading series at community centers throughout the city and has expanded to include workshops that provide participants with the performance skills needed to best bring their stories to life on stage. The Goodman’s Education and Community Engagement department, along with GeNarrations Lead Teaching Artist Bobby Biedrzycki, now hold these workshops prior to every GeNarrations performance. The first writing topic for our 2012/2013 Season, which was based on themes in Sweet Bird of Youth, was Stories from the School of Life. Participants began writing their narratives in early October and came to the Goodman on October 25, 2012, for their first workshop of the new season. The workshop gave participants the chance to use new techniques in the creation of their stories while also developing performance skills. Goodman Theatre Teaching Artists Bobby Biedrzycki and Julie Ganey, who are professional performers as well as instructors, worked with experienced members of the Goodman Youth Arts Council (our teen leadership and advisory group) to walk GeNarrations participants through myriad exercises, including devised theater techniques in which scripts or stories are generated by collaborative, group improvisation. Participants also practiced Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints exercises, which help actors and artists experiment with movement and gesture as a method of creating dynamic staging for their scripts and stories. The result was not only new acting skills, but the collaborative creation of crossgenerational content that GeNarrations participants used in the culmination of the training, the final reading of the Stories from the School of Life session on November 10, 2012. Next up for GeNarrations is our Family Secrets reading, which will be performed in conjunction with Other Desert Cities. Writing for this workshop will take place in our partner senior centers from January 2013 through late February 2013, with a final performance set for Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Renaissance Court. After that, we’ll hold a writing workshop for Stories of Ambition and Identity, in conjunction with our production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; workshops will run from late April through late May of 2013, with a final reading on Saturday, June 1, 2013, at Renaissance Court. For more information or to get involved with GeNarrations, email GeNarrations@GoodmanTheatre.org or call 312.443.5581. ABOVE: Members of GeNarrations participate in Viewpoints exercises at the October 25th, 2012, workshop by using their bodies to “sculpt” emotions and abstract concepts. Goodman Theatre would like to thank the Field Foundation for its generous support of GeNarrations AND ALL EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DONORS FOR THEIR HELP IN MAKING THIS PROGRAM POSSIBLE. 17
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